Stock Market LIVE: Nifty Opens Near 25,300, Sensex Gains 160 Points As HDFC Bank, RIL Shares Lead

• The yield on the 10-year bond opened flat at 6.48%

Source: Bloomberg

• Rupee opened 23 paise stronger at 87.83 against US Dollar

• It settled at 88.06 on Tuesday

Source: Bloomberg

The month of August 2025 witnessed a sharp divergence in India’s primary market trends, with qualified institutional buyers consolidating their dominance in mainboard offerings, while retail investors increasingly steered momentum in small and medium enterprise listings, revealed NSE's Market Pulse report.

The share of QIBs in mainboard IPO allocations rose to 57% in August, up from 51% in July, as per the report. Retail individual investors moderated slightly to 28.5% from 29.2%, while non-institutional Investors edged higher. In contrast, SME listings on the NSE Emerge platform saw a more retail-driven profile.

All eyes are on the primary market as the highly anticipated stock market debut of Urban Company, a name that's been making waves is to happen on Wednesday. Urban Company is India’s most subscribed public issue in 2025, closing with a staggering 109x subscription rate.

Apart from Urban Company, Dev Accelerator, Shrinagar House of Mangalsutra are going to list on exchanges today. Track live updates on today's listing with NDTV Profit here.

Asian markets held back their record run amid caution before the US Federal Reserve's policy outcome, scheduled for later today. The Nikkei 225 was trading 0.20%, while the KOSPI fell 1.04% down.

The central bank is widely expected to reduce rates by 25 basis points.